PHOTO: Julian Assange speaks to the media inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London ahead of the first anniversary of his arrival there on June 19, 2012. This June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked a

A still from the short documentary "Yasuni" directed by Nicolas Entel. An indigenous girl bathes in the Napo River, the gateway to the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador , which is endangered by oil expolitation.

PHOTO: On June 19, 2012, Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced in Quito that Julian Assange is seeking asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London, and that Ecuador's government is studying the request.

PHOTO: This giant tortoise, known as Chelonoidis elephantopus, was thought to have disappeared from the GalapagosIslands 150 years ago, but has turned up on an island 200 miles from where it was originally observed.